These days, there are less than a dozen cinemas in Edinburgh – but between 1820 and 1963 there was reportedly more than 120 picture houses across the city.
Heard the one about the tourist who won a year's worth of free beer after buying a pint at the Edinburgh Fringe? He thought it was joke.
I don’t normally bother too much with an albums of the year chart – and this year was no different – though I had compiled and intended to publish a best-selling chart for the last year in Waverley Market.
Vladimir McTavish
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